The 20 biggest-selling Christmas number 1s of all-time

Gary Flockhart

Love ’em or loathe ’em, there’s just no escaping Christmas songs at this time of year. But have you ever wondered what are the biggest-selling festive hits of them all?

Chances are, you’ll know most of the songs in the Top 20. What’s interesting, though, is that only a dozen of the UK’s Official Christmas No.1s have been about Christmas. The rest of them were simply big songs that sold by the truckload at that time of year.